George Faulkner

How Anxiety Illness Affects Your Life



Posted: Sunday, September 20, 2009

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According to scientific terms, anxiety illness is a mental disorder with an irregular psychological state of mind accompanied with somatic behavior patterns. Anxiety illness or the anxiety disorder is a very serious health issue, which greatly affects the life of any person, and they are left not being the same person as they used to be. The medical definition of anxiety illness is a term often used synonymously, abnormal fear and anxiety which are generally not expected from an ordinary human being. It's true that fear and anxiety are natural human responses to the threats we encounter, perceive, or anticipate; however, the uncertainties inherent in our lives on a personal and global level almost inevitably give rise to feelings of anxiety. Most of us experience bodily responses like muscle tension, rapid heartbeat, cognitive responses (anticipating something unfortunate happening in our future) and behavioral responses (e.g., choosing not to do something because it may make us uncomfortable) that signals the presence of anxiety from time to time. Gradually, their anxious responses become severe and pervasive, causing intense distress and severely restricting or impinging on quality of life.

The ubiquity of anxiety to the human existence is obvious in the poetry, philosophical essays, religious tomes, and clinical or empirical literature of our society. From the standpoint of existential philosophy, anxiety is seen as a natural, multifaceted response to both the freedom and the responsibility associated with making daily choices about how to live one's life. However, from a traditional mental health perspective, the universally human experience of anxiety can prompt a cascade of responses that signal the presence of a psychological disorder. Specifically, significant distress may emerge as a secondary response to fear and anxiety and impairment in important domains of life functioning can occur as an individual attempts to avoid situations that elicit fear and anxiety.

If someone does not like his or her wardrobe, he or she can purchase new clothes; if the room is too cold one can turn up the heat. But control and problem solving do not work well with our thoughts and feelings, such as anxiety, because these events are often verbally related and the process of relating cannot be stopped. For a person suffering from anxiety illness, it gets even worse. He faces difficulty in doing normal day to day tasks.

Anxiety illness can be seen in people either from their birth or later in their lives after they trigger it somehow. The major cause and most common anxiety illness is the inability of maintain balance of Amygdale, which is involved with the element of fear. Anxiety illness or disorders highly affects one's life especially in later years with increased stresses like physical illness or financial issues.

To sum up, anxiety illness is associated with high rates of vocational dysfunction and financial dependence. The adverse impact of anxiety illness on quality of life is comparable to that of major depression. Many studies reported that anxiety illness is associated with a significant decrease in physical and mental functioning that is compounded in the presence of co morbid mood or anxiety disorders and is comparable to-and sometimes worse than-that in patients with chronic medical conditions and depression.

George has been working with anxiety sufferers for a while now and has his information website http://www.AnxietyAcademyOnline.com to assist anyone sufferring with anxiety.

This website gives the user at no cost loads of useful tips and helpful information on the subject of Anxiety. Use it for reference or just for your own use the choice is yours.

For a free mini course of 20 plus parts visit the website and for more info. on Anxiety Disease visit http://www.anxietyacademyonline.com/anxiety-mental-illness/

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